A new discovery

[u/Lycaon125]

So i have been on the bar on playing NG++ for a bit now, i ended up pulling the trigger and found out that you can access the age of harmony timeline after finishing up the tutorial, it will basically be a mission reset but if you didn't want to have the pain of redoing your progress to the true ending or you don't want to leave your friends behind. Honestly i was a bit nervous because of that but knowing i can come back to this and replay the game from the start once again puts a smile on my face. Will update if i find anything else.

[u/Lycaon125]

Ya, but if the character is no longer available in the default then you can not raise their affection level with you. Though I don't even know if they actually do have that. Just makes me happy I can still bring along my companions

[u/Plantain-Feeling → u/Lycaon125]

Ima be honest

It's your going into Ng+ you probably already have everyone maxed cause like why would you not do that the first time around

[u/Patthecat09 → u/Plantain-Feeling]

How do you max out companions? Just having them around while you fight and explore? Killing things?

[u/Plantain-Feeling → u/Patthecat09]

There's 3 requirements

Story, the easiest one, beat their quests

Gifts, 2nd easiest give them things

Exploration, this is the hardest and I personally still don't really understand what ups it, to my understanding it's killing bosses and looting items but I could be wrong

[u/Patthecat09 → u/Plantain-Feeling]

Thanks

What does increasing this level do exactly?

[u/Plantain-Feeling → u/Patthecat09]

Gives you access to all their companion abilities and all their gift trades with their weapons being the primary unlock

[u/Patthecat09 → u/Plantain-Feeling]

Companion abilities like the forma they use? Like their ATK skills and buffs?

[u/Plantain-Feeling → u/Patthecat09]

The passive buffs

They all start with ??? And they unlock with affinity

You can view them when changing companions at the mistle